Awareness Quotes

"Saturday is still the busiest shopping day of the week."

- Susan Orlean

"People still act differently on a Saturday night for no reason other than it’s Saturday night."

- Susan Orlean

"What makes us different, also makes us special."

- Dr. Stephen Mark Shore

"Remember, we see the world not as it is but as we are. Most of us see through the eyes of our fears and our limiting beliefs and our false assumptions."

- Robin Sharma

"Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."

- President Thomas Jefferson

"Unless and until our society recognizes cyberbullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue."

- Anna Maria Chávez

"Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact."

- Terry Pratchett

"A generation which ignores history has no past -- and no future."

- Robert A. Heinlein

"What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?"

- Thomas à Kempis

"We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions."

- Brené Brown

"Parenting is about raising and celebrating the child you have, not the child you thought you'd have."

- Brené Brown

"Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed."

- Brené Brown

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

- Emily Dickinson

"There is nothing like a concrete life plan to weigh you down. Because if you always have one eye on some future goal, you stop paying attention to the job at hand, miss opportunities that might arise, and stay fixedly on one path, even when a better, newer course might have opened up."

- Indra Nooyi

"I am different, not less."

- Temple Grandin

"Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley."

- Temple Grandin

"If I could snap my fingers and be nonautistic, I would not. Autism is part of what I am."

- Temple Grandin

"When you control a man’s thinking, you do not have to worry about his actions."

- Carter G. Woodson

"Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices."

- L'Wren Scott

"Some men go through a forest and see no firewood."

- English Proverb

"No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced."

- David Attenborough

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?"

- Katharine Whitehorn

"There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time."

- Napoléon I

"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening."

- Rosa Luxemburg

"“Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.”"

- Bill Keane

"To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation."

- George Herbert Mead

"Your intent is for the future, but your attention is in the present."

- Deepak Chopra

"There are only four kinds of people in the world. Those who have been caregivers. Those who are currently caregivers. Those who will be caregivers, and those who will need a caregiver."

- Rosalynn Carter

"ADHD is not a disorder of knowing what to do, it’s a disorder of doing what you know — at the right times and places."

- Russell Barkley, Ph.D.